Careers

Kenes Group is looking for a senior bookkeeper for a very interesting position – dealing with the core business of the company, financial closing of our congresses until balanced, and accurate ledgers.

Location: Kenes Group office is located at Azrieli Holon (shuttle bus from Tel Aviv available).

Responsibilities:

• Finalising and closing 15-20 congresses per year, financial reporting
• Managing the internal audit process of those congresses:
  1. Actual vs. Budget
  2. Correlating the ERP system with all operational systems (registration/hotels/etc.)
  3. Monitoring company profits
  4. Reviewing signed contracts with clients/vendors
  5. Finalising costs ensuring all POs are closed with no missing invoices
• Preparing documentation for external auditors
• Uploading budgets to the ERP
• Working closely with all operational departments, multiple interfaces

Education & Experience:

• Experienced bookkeeper 1+ years, level 3 bookkeeper. We are willing to consider new and talented graduates
• Outstanding Excel skills
• Fluent English (both spoken and written)
• Previous employment in a global office working environment – an advantage
• Experience working with multiple currencies – an advantage
• Thinking outside-the-box and understanding the full picture
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• Strong verbal and written skills in English
• Self-management and independent work
• Highly organised and reliable with strong attention to detail

Please email your CV to: careers@kenes.com

Position Code: #16-2019

Kenes Group is looking for a Bookkeeper to join our Finance team.

Responsibilities:

• Bookkeeping type 3 to balance sheets
• Handle all aspects of bookkeeping – suppliers, customers, bank reconciliations, credit cards, journal entries, fixed assets, VAT, income tax reports, etc.
• Preparation of periodic reports to management
• Ongoing contact with the company’s auditors
• Preparation of the company’s cash flow
• Work closely with all internal operational departments
• Handle and process accounts for 15-20 congresses per year, including P&L reports
• Prepare actual vs. budget reports for each congress
• Financial control – ensure congress financials are closed/settled for each project
• Immediate availability

Education & Experience:

• Experienced bookkeeper with minimum 3+ years
• Experience with Office and ERP software
• Fluent English
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Reliability and personal integrity
• Team player
• Assertiveness
• High written and verbal expression skills
• Thoroughness and down to details skills
• Autodidact ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines

Please email your CV to: careers@kenes.com

Position Code: #15-2019

Kenes Group is looking for a Marketing Automation Data Specialist to join our Sales/Operations team. The Marketing Automation Data Specialist will help maximise profits and minimise costs in marketing and sales operations. She/he will do that by efficiently maintaining the company’s contact data collections and compiling effective mailing lists to the marketing and sales teams.

Responsibilities:

• Assembling contact data of potential customers from multiple sources and formats, in order to produce mailing lists for the marketing and sales teams, for all the company’s clients, in a timely manner and meeting deadlines
• Creating segmented lists, data streams and setting up email sending sequences (logical flows – “if/”then” scenarios) based on user behaviour and user profiles, as recorded by the marketing automation application (Marketo)
• Continuously optimising data in the company’s sales and marketing database by adding updated records, removing outdated ones, reporting, cleaning and deduplicating data in Excel
• Maintaining the mailing lists throughout the life cycle of the marketing campaigns by continuously monitoring the event’s data input streams (“Join the mailing list”, address changes, email replies, etc.)
• Analysing the results of direct marketing campaigns and developing strategies for improvement of performance
• Managing the central marketing database and producing reports for the marketing team

Requirements:

• Prior experience with email marketing applications – preferably email marketing automation – an advantage
• High familiarity with MS Excel and Word and the ability to independently troubleshoot them
• Orderliness and attention to detail
• Willingness to spend many hours a day manipulating textual data in Excel
• Tech-savvy – willingness to learn and work in new technical environments
• Ability to work independently
• Service orientated approach
• Team player

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing/ business/ social sciences, or a related field – an advantage
• Experience with a CRM – an advantage
• Native English speaker/mother-tongue level, verbal and written – an advantage
• Excellent computer skills, including all Microsoft Office programs, familiarity with additional computer programs

Please email your CV to: careers@kenes.com

Position Code: #14-2019

The International Papillomavirus Society (IPVS) is the leading global expert on human papillomaviruses (HPV). HPV is the world’s most common sexually transmitted infection and is associated with approximately 5% of all cancer cases worldwide.

Now going into its third year, the International HPV Awareness Day campaign has already attracted global attention and awards. IPVS has established an international campaign alliance that includes some of the leading global agencies in cancer, sexual health, and HPV. With these foundations in place, we are now looking to appoint a full-time Communications Officer to help us develop and deliver our year-round awareness campaign and help to maximise the Society’s advocacy and educational impact.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and deliver the annual IPVS Campaigns and Communication Workplan
• Develop and deliver a social media content plan on behalf of IPVS
• Society social media channels management and overall responsibility
• Work closely with suppliers to ensure the delivery of HPV Awareness Day campaign tools on time and on brief
• Coordinate communication with our international campaign partners to maximise their engagement and mobilisation around International HPV Awareness Day and to ensure that we are leveraging their campaigns to further the advocacy objectives of IPVS. Includes scheduling webinars/teleconferences, e-newsletters, managing contact databases
• Support other member communication activities of IPVS

Requirements:

• A degree in marketing, communications, or a related field
• Execution of advocacy communication plans
• Designing and undertaking campaigning, marketing, and/or communications in a global context
• Planning and implementing campaigns including budgeting
• Strategically engaging with diverse communities across cultures, preferably in an advocacy communication or campaigning context
• Excellent copywriting and copy-editing skills
• Significant experience in using social media and digital technologies to build public awareness and engagement

Education & Experience:

• Native level of English
• Self-motivated with the ability to work under own initiative to identify and respond to communication challenges and opportunities
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the highest level of attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal skills in liaising, communicating and engaging with colleagues, partners, and audiences from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
• Demonstrated ability to understand and communicate complex and controversial issues
• High-level computer skills

Please email your CV to: careers@kenes.com

Position Code: #13-2019

As a member of the Kenes Group Industry Liaison & Sales team, the Associate will be responsible for maximising income from sponsorship and exhibition sales, as well as relationship building with the relevant industry representatives for your assigned congresses.

Responsibilities:

• Meet and exceed assigned targets for profitable sales objectives in the relevant congresses and industries
• Grow and further develop existing and new business, and meet established goals
• Proactively assess, clarify, and validate customers’ needs on an ongoing basis
• Plan sales and pricing strategy for each project, develop Industry Prospectus and manage all partnerships including soliciting, creating and responding to offers with proposals
• Establish productive, professional relationships with key personnel in assigned customer accounts (pharma/medical device companies and others), while prospecting for new ones
• Conduct successful negotiations with clients (potential sponsors and exhibitors)
• Be the main contact for industry (pharma/medical device companies and others) and act as a liaison between companies and conference project teams for your assigned congresses
• Proactively provide reports to the Senior Account Manager, project teams, and clients

Requirements:

• Target and results oriented
• Highly motivated, over-achiever, team player, and facilitator
• Ability to think out-of-the-box
• Direct, honest communication style
• Exceptional client/interpersonal skills – written, verbal and presentation
• Ability to work independently

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in related discipline; MBA – an advantage
• 3 years of proven sales experience, events industry – an advantage
• Native or mother-tongue English; additional European languages – an advantage
• Previous work experience in an international environment with global offices/markets
• Excellent computer skills, knowledge of SalesForce (CRM) – an advantage
• Moderate travel (20%)

Please email your CV to: careers@kenes.com

Position Code: #09-2019